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> From: John Schneider[SMTP:jdschn AT ibm DOT net]
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 1997 3:46 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
> Subject: AIX ADSM server for MVS datasets; and 3590 autoloaders
>
> Greetings,
> I am just getting my feet wet, ADSM-wise, so I am sorry if
> these newbie questions are beneath most of you, but I am having
> trouble
> getting a straight answer out of our local IBM support:
>
> 1) We have 3590 autoloader tape drives connected to our AIX ADSM
> server. When tape drives are loaded in to the autoloader, they have
> to be scanned in order for ADSM to be able to know which volumes are
> in available. This is a slow and tedious process, measured in
> geologic terms. My question is, when we only change one tape in the
> autoloader in order to do a restore, can we only scan the one slot
> that got changed, and not the whole device? My operators are
> telling me that they can only scan the entire autoloader, and wait and
> wait. Is that true. It would be MUCH faster to scan only one slot.
>
> 2) We have an AIX ADSM server, and would like to back up MVS clients.
> I have been told by the customer wanting to back up MVS that the AIX
> server won't support MVS PDS, and other MVS file structures, and that
> we should have installed MVS as the server. Is that correct. Is
> there a special feature I need to install on either side to support
> this? I have trouble believing this, since ADSM bills itself as being
> a any-to-any sort of backup solution.
>
> Please reply if you can shed any light on these questions.
>
> Also, if there is an FAQ for this list, please point me to it so I
> can read that before posting redundant questions to the list.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> John Schneider
>
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